Brittany Ferries

[Paulie]

Hi I am looking at prices for next August, Portsmouth-St Marlo and sailing home Caen-Portsmouth. Booking direcet with Brittany Ferries is very expenisve (£900+), does anybody know if booking via the caravan club is any cheaper?

Thanks Pauline

 

[ValA.]

I think the Caravan Club is doing some cheaper offers with Brittany Ferries. If you're not a member then post dates/times/length of vehicle on here and I'll check prices for you. There are offers where if you buy 7 Camping Cheques (worth £97.00 odd) then you can save even more. Somewhere on this forum is a post from a contributor giving his costs with and without the Camping Cheques, and I think he saved over £200 and effectively got the Camping Cheques free!
Camping Cheques (www.campingcheque.co.uk) are also doing some offers with caravans go free - it's worth having a look at their website and putting in your dates and times to check.
Read the small print first on both offers as the best fares only apply to some sailings, so simply by altering the time of your sailing you could save a good deal.

 

[anotherDavid]

I got a good discount and 7 cheques thrown in on the Portsmouth Caen crossing booked through the CC. It was such a good deal it would have been worth joining for. The Brittany ferries site does display a colour coded chart indicating the relative costs of different sailings that is useful when deciding when to cross, I would look at this then go to the CC site or call and be sure to ask if the Camping cheques make it any cheaper even if you dont need them.
David

 

[Paulie]

Thanks for your help, I am a member, will have to have a look at 'camping cheques' not really sure how they work but sounds like a good deal.

Thanks once again.

Pauline

 

[ValA.]

Pauline - you don't even have to use the Camping Cheques to make it a good deal - you may still save money, and if you don't want them you can always try to sell them on forums such as this one. Generally there is always someone wanting some - and anything you can get for them offsets against the ferry costs.
However, they 'work' on about 300 campsites through France, and each Camping Cheque, worth £13.95, will pay for a pitch for two adults, car and caravan, awning, and electricity (and one dog!). In the packages mentioned above they come as part of the 'deal' and actually make the end cost much cheaper than just the ferry alone.
With the Caravan Club make sure that as part of the booking process you select 7 Camping Cheques. It's easy enough to have a look at the on-line booking system with the Caravan Club and play around with times and dates to see what the costs will be with or without the Camping Cheques.! Similarly with Camping Cheques (www.campingcheque.co.uk) you can do an on-line quote for your crossing and compare prices with Brittany Ferries themselves.
I don't know whether these offers apply in high season, but it is worth checking just in case!

 

[KnL]

Hi Pauline,

I've been looking at the same booking, and with CC it comes out at £901.00, which is for a motorhome 8.67m long, 3.2m high, sailing out on 30/07 and returning on 14/08 next year. It's actually cheaper, again with CC, to do St Malo both ways (£811.00) but I'm guessing you're the same as me and don't want to have to stay overnight nearby to get the morning crossing.
I did compare both options on the Brittany website, and they are around £80 more expensive. I don't know where you're staying, but we go to the Vendee, and a cheaper option we've used is Portsmouth to Le Havre, with LD Lines. Again cheaper with CC, £434.12 for next year, but you do have to pay it all up front with them. We found LD very good, they don't cram vehicles in like Brittany, and rooms and food are just as good.

Thanks, Lara.

 

[LesleyP]

If you check on the Camping Cheques website it gives you details of the discounted sailings with Brittany i.e. caravans go free. I think this is sailing after 18th august and returning after 1st or 2nd September. I obtained a quote for the last two weeks of the school holidays returning at the beginnign of September and this netted out to just over £300 for the sailing - Portsmouth to Caen. From there we are travelling to the Vendee.

 

[3.0ghia]

hi last year was our first trip to france with the van and we used ld lines,the prices quoted for brittany ferries seems awfully high to me
our total cost via the CC inc two weeks stay and return ferry crossings from portsmouth to st malo were only £600 complete,
i have quotes for the same crossings in july direct with ld lines and direct with the campsite for 2012 and CC QUOTE
CC is cheaper for the crossing but dearer for the campsite
ld lines is dearer direct but the camp site is cheaper but the difference isnt that much
the petrol used to get back to st malo is a better option than the return ferry from Caen and is only a couple of hours drive

Chris.

 

[TD42]

If you try http://order.campingcheque.co.uk/?utm_source=Adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=camping%20cheques%20UK&utm_campaign=Camping+Cheque+PPC&gclid=CNGbjYvwoawCFcod4Qod3mQTAw

they are doing caravan/trailer free but you have to buy at least 3 camping cheques